The highlight of the Hugo Awards

The Garcia Moment

As pointed out on rasfw

The perils and pleasures of long-running fantasy series

Also as pointed out on rasfw: Poor Gerrold; his grand unfinished series has pretty fallen off people's radar.

Tor/Forge Books and NASA Jointly Announce Publishing Collaboration

Found in my mailbox, qwp:

NEW YORK, NY (August 23, 2011) - In an effort to educate and encourage math and
science education Tor/Forge Books, an imprint of Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, and
NASA have embarked on a collaboration to publish a series of science based,
commercial fiction books, referred to as "NASA inspired Works of Fiction" around
concepts pertinent to the current and future work of NASA. NASA will allow existing
and new Tor/Forge authors to team up with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's (GSFC)
Subject Matter Experts (SME) to create scientifically accurate and entertaining
novels in a distinctly unique way.
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For my own convenience

Niall Harrison's Hugo Reactions Roundup

Why I think podcasts *are* a distinct category

I have to put on my headphones for podcasts, which I don't for print media*. Apparently the difference between needing a computer or reading off of paper isn't a distinct enough difference for me to care about paper fanzines and online ones (except that I am really very unlikely to ever see the first) so I treat them as being part of the same thing.


* Yeah, have I complained about websites that come with prep-packaged, loud music that activates as soon as you open up the page? Takes me by surprise *every time*.

An I am frankly boggled that there people who disagree with me on this poll

Because the ending was to me in no way ambigious.
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An I am frankly boggled that there people who disagree with me on this poll

Because the ending was to me in no way ambigious.
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At least I am getting faster at this

Computer suddenly started not responding to particular commands, always alarming. I managed to track it down to a dead left-click button on the mouse reasonbly quickly...